Re: utf-8-strings

[David Kastrup]

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Harm,
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>     (2) The code using the regexp library does not work with windows
>     so
>     far (perhaps never).
>     
>
> Unfortunately, I'm still having no luck with Windows XP. (@David
> Kastrup: thank you for your suggestions and the link)  I will be able
> to try the files on a Windows 7 system soon, and I'll let you know
> what happens...

So we should forget about the regexp stuff for now: it seems more of a
distraction than a help that it is locale-aware.

But using charsets for figuring out continuation bytes from other bytes
should work reasonably well.

-- 
David Kastrup